BET Awards Draw 7.9 Million Viewers

It looks like taking over downtown LA for the weekend has paid of for BET. The BET Awards drew 7.9 million total viewers last night, dwarfing this year’s cable-aired awards shows like the MTV Movie Awards (those drew 3.2 million viewers April 13) and heating up social media with 11 million tweets about the event. The viewership number is up from the 7.8 million who tuned in last year, when Samuel L Jackson hosted. Chris Rock hosted this year and was spot on (why isn’t he on TV more?). The weekend’s BET Experience at L.A. Live drew 112,488 attendees for film screenings, 106 & Park live tapings, interviews and concerts featuring the likes of Outkast, Maxwell, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Future, The Roots and Trey Songz.

5 Comments

We only tune in to see who’s going to get shot before and after the BET awards! I lost a bet, ONLY one person got shot over the weekend! SMH

Chicken Parm • on Jun 30, 2014 5:13 pm

MTV Music Awards are in August… not sure what’s in April.

Congrats to BET all the same…

Manwithaplan • on Jun 30, 2014 5:13 pm

Chris Tucker hosted last year. I was there.

Benjamin • on Jun 30, 2014 5:13 pm

When are the “White Entertainment Awards”? I’d love to watch those on the “White Entertainment Channel”. Seems fair.

Here we go again • on Jun 30, 2014 5:13 pm

Well Benjamin, that would be EVERY OTHER CHANNEL ON TELEVISION!!!! It continues to baffle me how anyone in 2014 1) continue to make this “joke” 2) cannot see the disparity of black actors/shows on television 3) nobody calls it “Black Entertainment Television” 4) continue to play the nonplayable reverse racism card while hiding behind a computer. SMH